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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 19 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Jeremiah 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/18.htm" title="Jeremiah 18">◄</a> Jeremiah 19 <a href="../jeremiah/20.htm" title="Jeremiah 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jeremiah/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and say, ‘Hear the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So beware, the days are coming, declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“ ‘In this place I will ruin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).">a</a></sup></span> the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and say to them, ‘This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>. I will make this city like Topheth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the <span class="name">Lord</span> had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple and said to all the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’ ”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew for <i>ruin</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>jar</i> (see verses 1 and 10).</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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